Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Written and compiled for the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1887.

every old fossil that had political
existence previous to the Republi-
can regime, heard the resurrection
trump and came forth demanding
and expecting a good fat office. A
more greedy, ravenous and shame
full rush for place was never wit
messed. Delegations and deputa-
tions in the interest of the numer-
GUS aspirants beseiged the White
House day and night and expecta-
lions were at high water mark
Two and a half years of the Ad-
mlnistration have passed away and
what Is the local result? Only
three of the many respectable posi-
tons belonging to the District are
filed by "home talentp A more
disappointed crowd cannot befound
anywhere, and the air is thick with
the maledictlons they heap upon
Cleveland and his Administration.
Democracy here means patronage,
pure and simple, and nothing else,
and the talk of Cleyeland's re-nom.
ination receives a most chilling re-
Spouse. OF course the Republicans
sympathize with their discontinue
and offer every balm of consolation
within reach, but nothing but office
will appease their anger, and as
the months roll on and the days OF
grace shorten, the violence of in
dlgnation increases. The delegates
from this District in the next Dem
ocratic National Convention will
not be Cleveland men. Mark that.
The recent Republican State
Conventions in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Iowa, and Maryland, has caused
the Administration to scratch It's
head and roll its eyes in wonder at
the remarkably clear, concise and
truthful manner in which the afOre-
said Administration is arraigned
before the public. They see the
handwriting on the wall, and it re-
quires no extraordinary Daniel to
give correct Interpretation. They
had been nursing the delusion that
there we're some old animosities
lurking in the Republican ranks
that would show themselves in a
marked degree when State Conyen-
tions presumed to indicate Presl'
dental choice, and anticipated and
predicted more or less of a rupture.
The harmony which has character
lied these conventions, the good
spirit which pervades the entire
party, and the determination
evinced to redeem the country from
the hands of shams and pretenders,
is a little more pointed than they
expected. They dread the expose
of their shameful abuse Of civil
service their bungling, imbecile
management of the finances; their
cowardly foreign policy their cruel
treatment of the country's defend
ers their vascilating management
of the public domain and their
utter and hopeless failure to inaug'
urate a single measure for the re-
lief or advancement of the people.
There is not single thing in this
administrator thus far, that can
be pointed to with any degree OF
American pride or party satsfac'
ton.
The program is pretty we'll com
pleted for Cleveland's electioneer
ing trip, anu soon he will be "swing
ing round the circle' on public eX
hibitlon. This game was played
/ by Andy johnson, when there wa'
some plausible excuse for it on The
ground Of the exciting and unset
tied condition of affairs at the clos'
of the war. But it proved a mos
ignOminiOus failure. 1t was trleC
again by President Hayes, who
YOU remember, became apromlnen
, attraction at various county agri
cultural fairs. There is no recOr'
that that procedure contributed
very materially to his popularity
The managers of the coming exh
bition intended to thrust Clevelan
on to the various Grand Army II
unions this fall, and thus atone TO
his numerous pension vetOes an
unmistakable sympathy for tn
- rebel leaders. but, whether wisel
or unwisely, that child was strant
Il led at the st. Louis affair, an
Il hence the change of program an
V the working up municipal invita-
tons. / know of no Republica
= who objects to this arrangement
- and as a simple party expedier
rejoice that the Democracy al
u still maintaining their record
u stupid laundering.
Quite a large number OF change
- will take place in the Interior an
10 Treasury Departments on the fir
10 of September and the month 70
lowing. A good many of the oil
10 clerks against whom not a con
plant can be made except tia
70 they are Republicans, have bee
- asked to resign and have alread
III taken the hint and put in their lie
u tiers, while others Will be dismlsse
'S outright on the ground of the n,
" cessity of reducing the force. A
n this is a preteDse and sham, an
p only designed to make place f
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